Passenger-car



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PASSENGER GAR.

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AARON LONGSTREET, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PASSENGER-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming. part of Letters Patent No. 275,397, dated April 10, 18 83.

Application filed December 24, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Bait known that I, AARON LONGSTREET, of Oh1cago,Oook county, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Railway Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed to strengthen the construction of railway passenger-cars and at the same time to lighten their weight, and render them more attractive and pleasant interiorl y by enabling the raising of both window sash and blinds the full height of the windowopening.

The nature of the invention will be fully set.

.same, with the interior ceiling or covering parts left off. Fig. 3 is a top view of the framing. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line as a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 isa side view of the joint between one of the rafters and a side post.

Similar letters indicate like parts in the drawings.

In said drawings, A represents the windowsill; A A, the window-sash; A the blinds; B, the letter-board, and O the roof of a railway passenger-ooach. D D are the usual vertical posts forming the sides of the windowopenings, and D is the ordinary supportingrod, which usually reaches from the horizontal timber known as the plate to the sill of the car. Instead of being secured at its upper end to the plate, as I dispense with said plate, said rod isseoured to the metal part E of the rafter, said part E having a horizontal bend, e, at its foot, through which the rod passes. Filling-blocks d are inserted between the posts D at interval in the usual manner, the rod passing through them.

I employ two pieces, E and F, between the windows. One of these, E, is strengthened and stiffened by the fiat metal rafter E, already mentioned, being bolted to it and the furringstrip E by bolts 0 at intervals. Both rafters may have light furring-strips e, as shown, and do not differ from the like parts of cars already in use except in the manner of attachment to (No model.)

they may be firmly screwed to the wood rafters E and F by screws f, as indicated, the parts being preferably cut away or halved together Where they are lapped upon each other. In this manner a very strong joint is formed between the rafter and post, so strong, indeed, that it enables inc to dispense with the plate. I believe the car thus built to be less likely to give way at this point than those built upon the old plan with the plate.

The metal part of the rafters may be dispensed with, and so also in some cases may the-rods D, as my invention renders the cars so much stronger and less likely to give way at the upper corner than theold construction. The invention, however, is chiefly valuable in cars having sharp upper corners, such as the prevailing styles at present in use, in contradistinetion from the cylindrical and other cars provided with bent ribs.

The doing away with the'plate lightens and cheapens the construction and enables me to extend the slideways of both windows and blinds to the top of the car, so that both may be raised completely out of the way of any passenger sitting by the same, and so the blinds, when raised, need not obstruct the vision of aperson standing in the car. In addition to these items of utility, this feature renders the car more attractive and permits the use of larger windows and the entrance of morelight and air.

I am aware that the plate has sometimes been cut away to permit the windows to be raised to the car-top, and hence I do not claim that manner of construction.

The blinds may be raised to the top without extending the passage for the sash, and thereby the added light be gained. I prefer, however, to make both in the manner shown, as the whole benefit of that part of my invention is obtained in that way instead of a portion only.

1 am aware that the plate has been mortised through above the window to permit the sash and blinds to slide up through the same; also, that curved ways extending into the roof have been provided for flexible blinds; also, that IOOv the plate has been made of two parallel tinlside posts are each joined and secured directly hers placed far enough apart to leave a ve1= to a rafter or carling' .at the upper corner of tieal space between them, through which the the car without the intervention of a plate I5 sash may be passed; also, that the posts and substantially as specified. 5 rafters have been made in one piece of timber, 2. A passenger-car provided with rafters bent to the form desired; and hence I do not directly connected by the supporting-rod to here claim broadly a car provided with pasthe sill, substantially asspecified. sage-ways for the sash and blinds extending T n to the top of the car; nor do I claim a car pro- AARON LOB GSBREEL IO vided with posts and rafters uiadein one piece. Vitnesses:

I claim- EDW. S. EVARTS, 1. The passenger-car in which the vertical H. M. MUNDAY. 

